The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this Special Issue on “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Human–Computer Interaction”. This Special Issue examines how artificial intelligence advances human–computer interaction, focusing on usability, accessibility, transparency, ethics, and inclusion. Our objective is to curate rigorous, human-centered research that demonstrates measurable improvements in interaction quality, safety, and equity.

Scope and Focus:

This Special Issue invites the submission of contributions that present methods, systems, and evaluations showing how AI enhances interaction while addressing trust, privacy, fairness, and inclusivity.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Intelligent user interfaces; conversational and multimodal systems.
2. User modeling, personalization, and coadaptive interfaces.
3. Affective and context-aware computing for responsive UX.
4. Generative AI for design, prototyping, and co-creation; AR/VR/MR interaction.
5. Evaluation methods, datasets, benchmarks, and tools for reproducible HCI.

Objectives of this Special Issue:

This Special Issue aims to achieve several key objectives:

• Bridge AI and HCI through applied, user-oriented studies.
• Establish best practices for explainable, trustworthy interfaces.
• Advance accessibility and inclusion via assistive and adaptive systems.
• Explore ethical implications of AI in HCI, with emphasis on fairness and accountability.
• Provide comparative evidence on UX outcomes, performance, and safety.
• Encourage open resources (datasets, code, protocols) to support replication.

This Special Issue builds upon the existing body of knowledge by integrating advances in human-centered AI with empirically grounded HCI research and deployment practice.

We invite researchers, practitioners, and experts to contribute original research, case studies, and insights to make this Special Issue a practical reference for the community.

We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions and anticipate a collection that guides future design, policy, and responsible adoption. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure the high quality and impact of accepted papers.

Dr. Papakostas Christos
Dr. Anestis Koutsoudis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• human-centered AI
• intelligent user interfaces
• multimodal and conversational interaction
• user modeling and personalization
• AR/VR and mixed reality interaction
• privacy, safety and ethics in HCI
• best practices